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March 01st 2012:Spotlight on Privacy Healthcare and Information Security Risk – What Every Business Needs to Know

Privacy and information security issues affect businesses and individuals on a national and global basis. This week’s guest, Kirk Nahra of Wiley Rein, is helping shape the policy debate on numerous questions from cybersecurity involving global superpowers and security breaches affecting patients, consumers and employees, to the debate about what privacy rights individuals have against businesses and government. Kirk will highlight the key areas you need to watch this year: Will the U.S. Congress finally act on privacy or security? Will companies be subject to a flood of litigation on security

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Kirk J. Nahra

Kirk J. Nahra, a partner with Wiley Rein LLP in Washington, D.C., specializes in healthcare, privacy, information security and overall compliance litigation and counseling. He is chair of the firm’s Privacy Practice and co-chair of its Health Care Practice. A member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, he is the editor of IAPP's Privacy Advisor. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional and serves on the Advisory Board for the Health Law Reporter. He served as the Co-Chair of the Confidentiality, Privacy and Security Workgroup, a public/private panel of experts advising the American Health Information Community on privacy and secur